Chenneville - Paulette Jiles
Category: Westerns
Tags: Westerns, Historical Fiction
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless postCivil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World., Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. Johns beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered., Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down., Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and confronts desperate people in pursuit of his quar
